The Seventeenth Annual International Colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies is hosted by the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
All sessions will be held at the Sheraton University City Hotel, Philadelphia.
We are grateful to Penn's Film Studies Program, French Institute for Culture and Technology, and Research Foundation as well as to the Florence Gould Foundation for their financial support.
Special thanks to Barry Cooperman (Director, French Institute) and Françoise Gramet (Assistant Director, French Institute).
Organizers: Philippe Met, Lydie Moudileno, Gerald Prince, Michele Richman
Web site designed by: Andrew Sobanet
Web site maintained by: Ari Blatt
12:00-6:30 Registration
1:00-2:30
1. World War II, Censors, and Judges
Center 1
Chair: Ora Avni, Yale University
"Sense and Censor Ability: Nazi Imputation of Wartime Texts"
Rachael Criso, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"World War Two and the Judeo-Berber Refusal in Bouganim Ami's Récits du Mellah and Mouloud Mammeri's La Colline oubliée"
Eleanor Kaufman, Cornell University
"Living Through the Occupation: Perspectives from the Works of Sarah Kofman, Georges Perec, and Marguerite Duras"
Eileen M. Angelini, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
"First Judgment: French Cinema and the Postwar Purge"
Philip Watts, University of Pittsburgh
2. Name That Tune? The Sound of Music in Contemporary French Literature
Chestnut
Chair: Bruno Thibault, University of Delaware
"Gracq's Nocturne d'Automne: Unheard Melodies in "Le Roi Cophétus"
Carol J. Murphy, University of Florida
"'Une plage de temps pur': écoute musicale et composition musicale dans Les Portes de Gubbio de Danièle Sallenave"
Bruno Thibault, University of Delaware
"Musicalité et récit contemporain: l'agencement narratif 'en concert' dans les fictions de Christian Gailly"
Nadia Saleh, Syracuse University
"Entre célébration et célébrité: l'écriture du jazz chez Echenoz, Gailly et quelques autres"
Jean-Louis Pautrot, Saint Louis University
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30
3. Today's Amazing Mazes: OULIPO and the Contemporary Novel
Center 1
Chair: William Cloonan, Florida State University
"What Lac Doesn't Lack: Jean Echenoz, OULIPO and the Ludic Tradition"
William Cloonan, Florida State University
"Michel Tournier and the OULIPO Legacy: The Liberating Constraints of le mythe littéraire"
Pamela Genova, University of Oklahoma
"Le Post-exotisme, ou: Mille milliards de textes, à peu près"
Jean-Louis Hippolyte, Kansas State University
4. Urbanités: Space and Its Avatars in Contemporary French Art and Architecture
Chestnut
Chair: Monique Yaari, Pennsylvania State University
"The Urbanism in Question: Debates of the 1980s and 90s"
Monique Yaari, Pennsylvania State University
"Shifting Notions of the City"
Verena Conley, Harvard University
"Urbanity on the Web: the art actuel of Fred Forest"
Michael Leruth, College of William and Mary
5:00-6:30
5. The Gay 20s?
Center 1
Chair: Garett R. Heysel, Lycoming College
"Frasques et Phrases: Les Narcisses de Valéry"
Philippe C. Dubois, Bucknell University
"Colette's Queer Side Acts"
Garett R. Heysel, Lycoming College
"The Importance of Being Thérèse: François Mauriac and Other Tormented Catholics in the Gay 20s"
Brigitte Mahuzier, Bryn Mawr College
6. La Plus Grande France: Frenchness Outside the Hexagon
Chestnut
Chair: Jonathan Gosnell, Smith College
"Dépaysé sans être abandonné: Tourism in French North Africa, 1900- 1914"
Patrick Young, Fordham University
"Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux and the Ideal of the Union française as a Catalyst to an African Novel of the 1950s"
Adele King, Ball State University
"Balancing the Imbalances: French-ness and Francophone-ness in the 21st Century"
Daniel Mengara, Montclair State University
8:00-4:30 Registration
8:30-10:00
7. Selves
University 1
Chair: Marvin N. Richards, John Carroll University
"Les moi en moi': Self and Selves in Proust"
Joshua Landy, Stanford University
"Henri Lopes: Portrait of an Artist"
Deena Amiry, University of Pennsylvania
"Le Je retrouvé, 'réflexion' autour de trois autobiographies intellectuelles: S. Amin, V. Y. Mudimbe, P. J. Houtondji"
Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
"The Public Intellectual as General Paralytic: Self-Censorship in E. M. Cioran's Romania's Transfiguration"
Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, Indiana University
8. Migrations and Métissagesin French Caribbean Literature
University 2
Chair: Anne Malena, University of Alberta
"Antilles-France-USA: le tout-archipel de Danticat et de Pineau"
Valérie Loichot, Washington College
"What's Love Got to Do with It? French Caribbean Literary Perspectives"
E. Anthony Hurley, SUNY-Stony Brook
"La Traduction culturelle de la diaspora chez Condé et Pineau"
Anne Malena, University of Alberta
9. Filmic Destinies
Chestnut
Chair: Véronique Flambard-Weisbart, Loyola Marymount University
"Politics and Esthetics in the New Wave: Right Bank Style"
Leah Hewitt, Amherst College
"The Nouvelle Vague Engagement Against the Vietnam War in Loin du Vietnam"
Panivong Norindr, University of Southern California
"Truffaut's Women: A Feminist Retrospective"
Pascale Gaitet, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Du Charme discret de la bourgeoisie au Festin de Babette: quel destin, cinématographique ou autre, pour la gastronomie française?
Martine Gantrel, Smith College
10. Mémoire(s) d'auteur
Center 1
Chair: Anne Mairesse, University of San Francisco
"Magritte, Memory, and the Art of Resemblance"
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley
"La Rumeur"
Hélène Domon, California State University, Fullerton
"Le Souvenir de ce qui n'a jamais été: mémoire et écriture"
Serge Bourjea, Université Paul Valéry
"L'Auteur à l'œuvre: figures et fictions de Valéry"
Anne Mairesse, University of San Francisco
"Georges Perec, le présent de la mémoire"
Jacques Neefs, Université de Paris VIII
11. Proustian Bodies, Proustian Names
Center 2
Chair: Lawrence R. Schehr, North Carolina State University
"Top"
Lawrence R. Schehr, North Carolina State University
"Grand pied-de-grue"
Franc Schuerewegen, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen
"Les Rides de Proust"
André Benhaïm, Emory University
"Proust's Swanns and the Legacy of the Revolution"
Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00
12. Autour de Marcel Bénabou
University 1
Chair: Warren Motte, University of Colorado
"Présentation"
Warren Motte, University of Colorado
"Le Bénabou de Borges"
Sydney Lévy, University of California, Santa Barbara
"C'est du tout cuit"
Linda Stillman, Collège de Pataphysique
"Réponse"
Marcel Bénabou
13. Ceci est arrivé près de chez vous: La Belgique
University 2
Chair: Stéphane Spoiden, University of Michigan, Dearborn
"Souffrance de la Belgique"
Stéphane Spoiden, University of Michigan, Dearborn
"La Nation belge comme matrice spirituelle"
Jean-Marie Lacrosse, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve et Ecole des Hautes Etudes de Liège
"L'Expatriation volontaire d'Henri Michaux"
Nathalie Roelens, Universités d'Anvers et de Nimègue
"De la littérature belge"
Michel Biron, Université du Québec à Montréal
14. Pleasure and the Pleasurable in French Culture
Chestnut
Chair: Richard Stamelman, Williams College
"Introduction"
Richard Stamelman, Williams College
"Les Plaisirs de la table chez Francis Ponge"
Gérard Gasarian, Tufts University
"Pleasure in Foucault"
Johnnie Gratton, University College Dublin
"Screening Pleasure: Touch and Vision"
Emma Wilson, Cambridge University
15. Cléo & Compagnie
Center 1
Chair: Steven Ungar, University of Iowa
"Gender and Space in Cléo"
Jill Forbes, University of London
"Du côté d'Agnès"
Catherine Portuges, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The Two Faces of Varda's Cinema"
Joseph Garreau, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
16. Investments
Center 2
Chair: Philip Hadlock, Texas Christian University
"Traces of Narrative: Memory and Silence in Maryse Condé's Desirada"
Dawn Fulton, Duke University
"The Occupied Novel: A Reading of Two Haitian Novels During the American Occupation"
Nadève Ménard, University of Pennsylvania
"Cajou's Bend"
Michèle Praeger, University of California, Davis
1:00-2:30
17. Innocence Lost
University 1
Chair: Beth Gale, Purdue University
"Thinking Innocents: Subversive French Heroines of the Early Twentieth Century"
Beth Gale, Purdue University
"Séductrice ou séduite? La fille fatale chez Vladimir Nabokov et Marguerite Duras"
Natascha Ueckmann, Universität Osnabrück
"Enfants pluriels chez Blais et Duras"
Annik Doquire Kerszberg, Pennsylvania State University
"Anamnèse de l'Indochine et de son enfance éternelle: la recherche durassienne de l'âge perdu"
Claire-Antoinette Lindenlaub, Bradley University
18. Guyanes
University 2
Chair: Annie Jouan-Westlund, Valparaiso University
"René Jadfard, écrivain guyanais"
Marc Lony, Loyola Marymount University
"Elie Stephenson: feu(x) sur la Guyane
Isabelle Favre, University of Nevada-Reno
19. Les Extrêmes
Chestnut
Chair: Jean-François Fourny, Ohio State University
"Mémoires extrêmes: Salut! Cousin de Merzak Allouache"
Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University
"Que cache l'extrême standardisation du monde au travers de nos écrans télévisés français?"
Estelle Taraud, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Extreme Right and Its Extreme Challenge to French Democracy"
Meaghan Emery, Ohio State University
"L'Histoire aux extrêmes: Oran, entre violence et mémoire amnésique"
Dominique Fisher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
20. La Nouvelle: un genre pour aujourd'hui et pour demain?
Center 1
Chair: Madeleine Cottenet-Hage, University of Maryland, College Park
"Andrée Chédid: la nouvelle comme mise en question"
Nadia Harris, American University
"Voices in Annie Saumont: Reinventing a Genre"
Lauretta Clough, University of Maryland, College Park
"Béatrix Beck: dans l'agence de donner des nouvelles d'aujourd'hui"
Frédérique Chevillot, University of Denver
"'Biofictions' et pages WEB: des constructions cyber-fictives pour une nouvelle du 20ème siècle"
Stella Behar, University of Texas, Pan American
21. En partance: Trois lectures: James Sacré, Benoît Conort et Yves Charnet
Center 2
Chair: Eliane DalMolin, University of Connecticut
"Si le poème nous amène ailleurs?"
James Sacré, Smith College
"Géographie d'un songe"
Benoît Conort, Université de Paris X
"Une errance en vue de soi-même"
Yves Charnet, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique
et de l'Espace
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30
22. Celebrating le roman noir?
University 1
Chair: Elyane Dezon Jones, Washington University in St. Louis
"L'Homme qui met le mystère K. O.: Leo Malet and the Birth of the roman noir"
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast
"La Guerre dans l'écriture policière contemporaine"
Pierre Verdaguer, University of Maryland, College Park
"Le Noir à l'écran: Feuillade, Clouzot, Melville"
Peter Schulman, Old Dominion University
23. Le Moi-Peau
University 2
Chair: Julie Solomon, Tufts University
"The Matador's Cape: Masculinity and Skin in Michel Leiris"
Julie Solomon, Tufts University
"André Gide's Skin"
Naomi Segal, University of Reading
"Du parchemin originaire au fantasme narcissique de l'Enveloppe absolue: avatars du Moi-peau dans les romans de Michel Tournier"
Jean-Paul Guichard, IUFM d'Auvergne and Université Blaise
Pascal
24. Post-Colonial Cinema
Chestnut
Chair: Dina Sherzer, University of Texas?Austin
"Figures de l'étranger en France: Salut! Cousin de Merzak Allouache"
Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University
"Boys in the Mud: New Cinematic Representations of the Maghrebi Minority in France"
Alec G. Hargreaves, Loughborough University
"La Promesse des frères Dardennes: Incorporation et intégration"
Mireille Rosello, Northwestern University
25. Novel Contexts
Center 1
Chair: Jean-Marc Kehres, Princeton University
"Memoirs of the Fille Publique: Recontextualizing Colette's La Vagabonde"
Rachel L. Mesch, University of Pennsylvania
"The Space of Patrimoine in Giono's Trilogie de Pan"
Susan Weiner, Yale University
"Credit-Card Cinderellas: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Romance and Foreclosure in Elsa Triolet's Roses à crédit"
Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University
26. "Le Monde va finir": la poésie française entre catastrophe(s) et recommencement(s)?
Center 2
Chair: Yves Charnet, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de
l'Espace
"La maladie du monde?"
Yves Charnet, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
"La Fin du monde et la poésie comme mot de la fin"
Christopher Elson, Dalhousie University
"Le Monde n'est pas fini"
Michel Collot, Université de Paris III
5:00-6:00 Keynote Speech
Upper Egyptian Gallery, The University Museum (33rd and Spruce)
François Bon
"Formes neuves de récit pour une réalité transformée"
6:00-8:00 Reception
Chinese Rotunda, The University Museum
8:00-4:30 Registration
8:30-10:00
27. Contemporains
University 1
Chair: Elizabeth Constable, University of California, Davis
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? Inscriptions of History in Maurice Roche's Compact"
Tina S. Kendall, University of California--Davis
"Plans de ville, plans de vie: de l'usage du nom de lieu chez Modiano et Kofman"
Derek Schilling, Stanford University
"Prosopopeia and Time in Pascal Quignard's Work"
Marie-Rose Logan, Temple University
"Les Romans de François Bon"
Wolfgang Asholt, Universität Osnabrück
28. Littérature du lointain
University 2
Chair: Constantin Grigorut, University of British Columbia
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"D'un cousinage éloigné"
Réjean Beaudoin, University of British Columbia
"The (Dis)Placement of Tibet in French Poetry: Victor Segalen's Thibet and André Velter's Le Haut Pays"
John Stout, McMaster University
"L'Image des Balkans dans la littérature française: le motif du sacrifice de construction dans Le Lait de la mort de Marguerite Yourcenar"
Constantin Grigorut, University of British Columbia
29. Hélène Cixous in the 1990s
Chestnut
Chair: Martine Motard-Noar, Western Maryland College
"From 'La Ville parjure' to 'Tambours sur la digue': Transformations in Cixous's Drama"
Cynthia Running-Johnson, Western Michigan University
"The Altobiography of Hélène Cixous"
Mairéad Hanrahan, University College Dublin
"Or et Osnabrück: 'puissé-je inventer sans offenser'"
Martine Motard-Noar, Western Maryland College
30. Le Quotidien
Center 1
Chair: Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Vassar College
"The Everyday and the Ordinary: Certeau with Cavell"
Michael Sheringham, Royal Holloway, University of London
"Quand le quotidien défaille: François Bon, une mise en voix du rien"
Dominique Viart, Université de Lille III
"Ecrire au quotidien et Ecriture du quotidien, un rapport complexe:
le 'journal d'Amerique'
de Claude Ollier dans Cahiers d'Ecolier"
Dominique Vaugeois, Université de Poitiers
"Photogénie du quotidien"
Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Vassar College
31. Pouvoirs de l'imaginaire
Center 2
Chair: Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University
"Malika Mokeddem ou L'écriture du nomadisme"
Armelle Crouzières, Middlebury College
"Of Goddesses and Monsters: Le monde selon Amélie Nothomb"
Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University
"French Literature in the 21st Century: A Real Issue or a Fallacy?"
Opportune Zongo, Bowling Green State University
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00
32. Images, témoignages
University 1
Chair: Adelaide Russo, Louisiana State University
"The Autobiographical and the Real in Apollinaire's War Poetry"
Susan Harrow, University of Wales Swansea
"Témoignage, testament, poésie"
Yasmine Getz, Université de Lille III
33. Encounters and Exclusions
University 2
Chair: Jaymes Rohrer, San Diego State University
"Placating the Centre: Images of France in Montherlant's La Rose de sable"
Edward J. Hugues, Royal Holloway, University of London
"Literature, Imperialism and Imagined Geographies: Reassessing Henri Fauconnier's Malaisie and André Malraux's La Voie royale"
Srilata Ravi, National University of Singapore
"Blacks and Blues: Christ's Magnificent Suffering in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar"
Jeanine S. Alesch, Randolph-Macon Woman's College
"La Voix exclue de la femme dans Sitt Marie Rose d'Etel Adnan et dans Coquelicot du massacre d'Evelyne Accad"
Mary-Angela Willis, University of Alabama
34. L'Autofiction: Théories et Pratiques (I)
Chestnut
Chair: Renée Kingcaid, Saint Mary's College
"Empreinte transférentielle et creeativitee dans l'autofiction analytique"
Simon Harel, Université du Québec à Montréal
"The Anti-Autofictional Compulsion of Laissé pour conte"
Alexandra Hugues, University of Birmingham
"A la recherche du cyber-ego"
Thomas C. Spear, CUNY-Lehman College
35. Animal Culture in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Studies
Center 1
Chair: Walter Putnam, University of New Mexico
"The Initiatory and Symbolic Roles of Animals in the Fiction of Michel Tournier and Patrick Grainville"
Rachel Edwards, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
"Cultural Displacements in Marie Nimier's La Girafe"
Walter Putnam, University of New Mexico
"Going to the Dogs: Brigitte Bardot and the Beasts"
Claire Schub, Tufts University
"The Durassian Cat"
Jane Winston, Northwestern University
36. The Legacy of May '68
Center 2
Chair: Joan Brandt, Claremont McKenna College
"Les Mémoires de Mai"
Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois
"'Rien n'est Tout': Lacan and the Legacy of May '68"
Peter Starr, University of Southern California
"Revolt or Consensus? Julia Kristeva in the 1990s"
Joan Brandt, Claremont McKenna College
1:00-2:30
37. Moving Domains
University 1
Chair: Alain Goldschläger, University of Western Ontario
"From Canadian Wilderness to Parisian Decadence: The Shifting Paradises in the Fiction of Anne Hebert"
Ingrid G. Daemmrich, Drexel University
"Nomadisme et écriture transculturelle dans Aya dans les villes d'Abdelwahab Meddeb (Fata Morgana, 1999)
Ronnie Scharfman, SUNY-Purchase
38. Dire l'Algérie: Hier/aujourd'hui, romans/récits (I)
University 2
Chair: Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, Bryn Mawr College
"Le Langage au pouvoir dans La Nuit de la lézarde de Malika Mokeddem"
Nicole Buffard-O'Shea, Oakland University
"Expressing Algeria in Marie Cardinal"
Claire Marrone, Sacred Heart University
"Inspirations méditerranéennes ou L'Algérie de Jean Grenier et de Henri Bosco"
Farah Zaïem, Université Blaise Pascal
39. The French Intellectual in the Nineties: Redefining engagement
Chestnut
Chair: Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University
"The Power of Cinema"
Lynn Higgins, Dartmouth College
"Intellectuals, the Left, and the Nation in Today's France"
Keith Reader, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
"The Terre et Peuple Group: A Case Study in the Cultural Struggle of the Extreme Right"
Christopher Flood, University of Surrey
"A New Negationism, or just Good Old Anti-Americanism? Régis Debray and Kosovo"
Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University
40. Why Deleuze, Why Now?
Center 1
Chair: Jill Forbes, Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London
"Post-68 Intellectual Itineraries: Deleuze"
Bill Marshall, University of Southampton
"Unnameable Sex: Sexual Identification, Conceptual Personae and the Time Image"
David Rodowick, University of Rochester
"How Now Deleuze"
Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University
41. Translation/Traduction
Center 2
Chair: Roger Célestin, University of Connecticut
"In the Labyrinth of French Verbs: Problems in Translating Perec and Others"
David Bellos, Princeton University
"What Translation Tells"
Mary Ann Caws, CUNY-Graduate Center
"Translation and (a)Muse"
Alyson Waters, Yale University
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30
42. Borders and Travelers
University 1
Chair: Jean-Jacques Thomas, Duke University
"'Affaire de sentiments': Politique et sexualité chez Gide"
Frédéric Canovas, Arizona State University
"Reading, Theater and Ambiguity in Gide's L'Immoraliste"
James T. Day, University of South Carolina
"A Cosmopolitan Orientalism: Loti and Morand Go East"
Roxana Verona, Dartmouth College
43. Dire l'Algérie: Hier/aujourd'hui, romans/récits (II)
University 2
Chair: Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, Bryn Mawr College
"The Second War of Algeria: The Representation of History in Fictional Works of the 1990s"
Susan Ireland, Grinnell College
"ICI/LA-BAS: Mission Impossible in Algiers"
Jane Kuntz, University of Illinois
"Mélina Gazsi: L'Armoire aux secrets ou "à la recherche d'un temps inconnu"
Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, Bryn Mawr College
44. Curriculum Change in the U. K.
Chestnut
Chair: Keith Reader, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
"The Leeds Centre for Francophone Studies: Towards New Curriculum Development in the UK"
Kamal Salhi, University of Leeds
"Queering the Agenda: Lesbian and Gay Texts, Lesbian and Gay Issues in the Institution of French Studies in Britain"
Lucille Cairns, University of Stirling
"Family Secrets: Teaching Language and Culture"
Michael Kelly, University of Southampton
45. L'Autofiction: Théories et Pratiques (II)
Center 1
Chair: Renée Kingcaid, Saint Mary's College
"Tous contes faits"
Serge Doubrovsky, New York University
"The MRIs of Sollers's Fictions"
Armine Kotin Mortimer, University of Illinois
"L'Autofiction, un genre désavoué"
Lénaïk Le Garrec, Université de Brest
46. One-Handed Readings
Center 2
Chair: Elisabeth Ladenson, University of Virginia
"Masturbating Women: Leduc, Irigaray, Cixous"
Lynne Huffer, Rice University
"Vulgar Characters: Genet, Proust, Balzac"
Michael Lucey, University of California, Berkeley
"A la recherche d'un plaisir inconnu: Proust's Art of Masturbation"
Elisabeth Ladenson, University of Virginia
5:00-6:30
47. Special Session with François Bon
University 1
Chair: Philippe Met, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture: Paysage fer
48. Famille, Nation, Identité
Chestnut
Chair: Martine Antle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"From Occupied France to Postwar Hollywood: Making and Remaking Family Ideology in Le Voile Bleu"
Rosemarie Scullion, University of Iowa
"Photos de famille et portraits de la France au 20ème siècle"
Maryse Fauvel, College of William and Mary
"The Schlemiel"
Warren Motte, University of Colorado
"Luz versus the Mégrets: Les Mégret gèrent la ville"
Mark McKinney, Miami University
49. Misleading Identities and Alter Egos: Transgressive Uses of Mask,
Pseudonym, and Simulation
Center 1
Chair: Van Kelly, University of Kansas
"Rereading Rrose Selavy: From Duchamp to Desnos"
Katharine Conley, Dartmouth College
"The Boris Vian Trial: The Pseudonymous Author Cast as Literary Delinquent"
Ralph Schoolcraft, University of Oklahoma
"Jude Stéfan: Poetry Behind the Mask"
Van Kelly, University of Kansas
50. Début de siècle, début des départements de français"
Center 2
Chair: Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University
Note: All conference participants may access
each of the papers and supplementary
material prior to the Colloquium, from February
25 onward, at
http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/Romance/20th2000.html.
Panelists will only present
short position statements based on these longer
papers, allowing for general
discussion of issues raised. Email request
for these materials may be sent
directly to C. Stivale@wayne.edu, by March
15, 2000, at latest.
"Teaching French: An Interdisciplinary Approach"
Nicole Buffard-O'Shea, Oakland University
"French Today: The Relevance of Undergraduate French Studies, for Teachers and Their Students"
Nathalie Rachlin, Scripps College
"Overseas Engagements: The Presence and the 'Futures' of Study Abroad"
Gayle Zachmann, University of Florida
"La Technologie à la rescousse: Nouveaux media, nouveaux moyens pour raccourcir les distances et revigorer les lettres"
Nicole Vaget, Mount Holyoke College
"Film Studies and Foreign Language Programs: Suture or Jumpcut?"
Nora Alter, University of Florida
8:30-11:30 Bal Costumé
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S. 36th Street (36th and Sansom)
8:30-10:00
51. "L'Identité française" à l'américaine. Fin de siècle, pour qui la crise?
Center 1
Chair: Martine Guyot-Bender, Hamilton College
"Pour qui la crise? Pourquoi les touristes n'aiment pas le trajet Roissy- Opéra"
Martine Guyot-Bender, Hamilton College
"Paris-Province, un remake à l'américaine?"
Catherine Poisson, Wesleyan University
"City of Lights: Paris Las Vegas"
Constance Sherak, Connecticut College
"Castles and Art Houses: The France of Educational Video Catalogs"
Philippe Carrard, University of Vermont
52. Lire double: lectures et lecteurs de Proust
Center 2
Chair: Michèle Magill, North Carolina State University
"Collaborating Writers: The Two Faces of Proust"
Christine M. Cano, Case Western Reserve University
"The Role of Empathy in Life and Art"
Inge Crosman Wimmers, Brown University
"Les Commentaires artistiques dans A la recherche du temps perdu: Etudes de style"
Michèle Magill, North Carolina State University
"'Le Temps retrouvé' de Raoul Ruiz ou le temps perdu au cinéma"
Pascal A. Ifri, Washington University in St. Louis
53. Caribbean 2000
University 1
Chair: Pascale De Souza, SAIS?Johns Hopkins University
"Créolité: The Movement that Wasn't"
James Arnold, University of Virginia
"Unity in Diversity in the Caribbean: Religions and Literary Space"
Anny Dominique Curtius, University of Delaware
"Marooning beyond Créolité"
Pascale De Souza, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
54. Theaters
University 2
Chair: Pascale Voilley
"Violent Violaine: Aggressive Catholicism in L'Annonce faite à Marie"
Judith Mausser, University of Pennsylvania
"The Drama of the Century: Beckett's Fin de partie at the fin de siècle"
Susan McCready, University of South Alabama
"Absolute Freedom and the Sublime Subject in Aimé Césaire's La Tragédie du roi Christophe"
F. Nick Nesbitt, Miami University
"The Occitan Theater Before and After 1968: High Culture Gives Way to Rebellion"
William Calin, University of Florida
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00
55. Parallaxes
Center 1
Chair: Philip Walsh, Northeastern University
"Proust and his Biographers"
Anthony Zielonka, Assumption College
"A Mother, a Daughter and a Poet: the Meyer-Graham Dynasty of Washington and its French Connections"
Nina S. Hellerstein, University of Georgia
"Boris Vian, Music Critic"
Francis Higginson, Simon's Rock College
"Unusual Stories: A Century of Women Writers' Histories"
Juliette Rogers, University of New Hampshire
56. Quests
Center 2
Chair: Kimberley Healey, University of Rochester
"The Impossible Quest for Creole Identity in an Increasingly Polluted Ecology"
Renée Gosson, University of Wisconsin?Madison
"Searching to Return in Djebar's Oran, Langue Morte"
Kimberley Healey, University of Rochester
"Simon's Dantean Journey"
Leigh Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
57. Comment peut-on être françaoui? Franco-Arabic "Immigrant" Fictions
and the Dislocations of Culture
University 1
Chair: Ziad Elmarsafy
"L'Arabe qui avait donné sa langue au chat français"
Farid Laroussi, Yale University
"Le Lexique de l'injure dans L'Héritage de Tante Carlotta"
Josué Harari, Emory University
"The Importance of Being Beur: Paul Smaïl in the Conformist Inferno"
Ziad Elmarsafy, New York University
"L'Orientalisme d'Assia Djebar"
Thoraya Tlatli, Princeton University
58. Disciplines and Liberations
University 2
Chair: Sarah Juliette Sasson, Barnard College
"Truth Through Fiction: Les Hommes dans la prison and Victor Serge as Witness"
Andrew Sobanet, University of Pennsylvania
"Foucault, Girard: The Return of Vengeance and Fiction"
Allan Stoekl, Pennsylvania State University
"Tremors and Change in the 1970s: Reassessing les événements of May '68"
Carina Yervasi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Pour une parole libérée: la participation de Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari au mouvement des radios libres (1977-1981)"
Matthieu Dalle, Pennsylvania State University
12:00-12:30 Colloques à venir: 2001-2003
University 2
Name, Session
Alesch, Jeanine S. 33
Alter, Nora 50
Amiry, Deena 7
Angelini, Eileen 1
Antle, Martine 48
Arnold, James 53
Asholt, Wolfgang 27
Avni, Ora 1
Bacholle, Michèle 31
Beaudoin, Réjean 28
Behar, Stella 20
Bellos, David 41
Bénabou, Marcel 12
Benhaïm, André 11
Bensmaïa, Réda 19, 24
Biron, Michel 13
Bon, François K, 47
Bourjea, Serge 10
Brandt, Joan 36
Buffard-O'Shea, Nicole 38, 50
Cairns, Lucille 44
Calin, William 54
Cano, Christine M. 52
Canovas, Frédéric 42
Cardonne-Arlyck, Elisabeth 30
Carrard, Philippe 51
Caws, Mary Ann 41
Célestin, Roger 41
Charnet, Yves 21, 26
Chevillot, Frédérique 20
Cloonan, William 3
Clough, Lauretta 20
Collot, Michel 26
Conley, Katharine 49
Conley, Verena 4
Conort, Benoît 21
Constable, Elizabeth 27
Cottenet-Hage, Madeleine 20
Criso, Rachael 1
Crouzières, Armelle 31
Curtius, Anny Dominique 53
Daemmrich, Ingrid G. 37
Dalle, Matthieu 58
DalMolin, Eliane 21
Day, James T. 42
De Souza, Pascale 53
Dezon Jones, Elyane 22
Domon, Hélène 10
Doquire Kerszberg, Annik 17
Doubrovsky, Serge 45
Dubois, Philippe C. 5
Edwards, Rachel 35
Elmarsafy, Ziad 57
Elson, Christopher 26
Emery, Meaghan 19
Fauvel, Maryse 48
Favre, Isabelle 8
Fisher, Dominique 19
Flambard-Weisbart, Véronique 9
Flood, Christopher 39
Forbes, Jill 15, 40
Fourny, Jean-François 19
Fulton, Dawn 16
Gaitet, Pascale 9
Gale, Beth 17
Gantrel, Martine 9
Garreau, Joseph 15
Gasarian, Gérard 14
Genova, Pamela 3
Getz, Yasmine 32
Goldschläger, Alain 37
Golsan, Richard J. 39
Gosnell, Jonathan 6
Gosson, Renée 56
Gratton, Johnnie 14
Gray, Margaret E. 25
Grigorut, Constantin 28
Guerlac, Suzanne 10
Guichard, Jean-Paul 23
Guyot-Bender, Martine 51
Hadlock, Philip 16
Hanrahan, Mairéad 29
Harari, Josué 57
Harel, Simon 34
Hargreaves, Alec G. 24
Harris, Nadia 20
Harrow, Susan 32
Healey, Kimberley 56
Hellerstein, Nina 55
Hewitt, Leah 9
Heysel, Garett R. 5
Higgins, Lynn 39
Higginson, Francis 55
Hippolyte, Jean-Louis 3
Huffer, Lynn 46
Hugues, Alexandra 34
Hughes, Edward J. 33
E. Anthony Hurley 18
Ifri, Pascal A. 52
Ireland, Susan 43
Jouan-Westlund, Annie 8
Kaufman, Eleanor 1
Kehres, Jean-Marc 25
Kelly, Michael 44
Kelly, Van 49
Kendall, Tina 27
King, Adele 6
Kingcaid, Renée 34, 45
Kuntz, Jane 43
Lacrosse, Jean-Marie 13
Ladenson, Elisabeth 46
Landy, Joshua 7
Laroussi, Farid 57
Le Garrec, Lénaïk 45
Lerner, Scott 11
Leruth, Michael 4
Lévy, Sydney 12
Lindenlaub, Claire-Antoinette 17
Logan, Marie-Rose 27
Loichot, Valérie 18
Lony, Marc 8
Lucey, Michael 46
McCready, Susan 54
McKinney, Mark 48
Magill, Michèle 52
Mahuzier, Brigitte 5
Mairesse, Anne 10
Malena, Anne 18
Marrone, Claire 38
Marshall, Bill 40
Mathy, Jean-Philippe 36
Mausser, Judith 54
Ménard, Nadève 16
Mengara, Daniel 6
Mesch, Rachel L. 25
Met, Philippe 47
Mongo-Mboussa, Boniface 7
Mortimer, Armine Kotin 45
Motard-Noar, Martine 29
Motte, Warren 12, 48
Murphy, Carol J. 2
Neefs, Jacques 10
Nesbitt, F. Nick 54
Norindr, Panivong 9
Obajtek-Kirkwood, Anne-Marie 38, 43
Pautrot, Jean-Louis 2
Poisson, Catherine 51
Portuges, Catherine 15
Praeger, Michèle 16
Putnam, Walter 35
Rachlin, Nathalie 50
Ravi, Srilata 33
Reader, Keith 39, 44
Reyns-Chikuma, Christian 27
Richards, Marvin N. 7
Rodowick, David 40
Roelens, Nathalie 13
Rogers, Juliette 55
Rohrer, Jaymes 33
Rosello, Mireille 24
Running-Johnson, Cynthia 29
Russo, Adelaide 32
Sacré, James 21
Saleh, Nadia 2
Salhi, Kamal 44
Sasson, Sarah Juliette 58
Scharfman, Ronnie 37
Schehr, Lawrence R. 11
Schilling, Derek 27
Schoolcraft, Ralph 49
Schub, Claire 35
Schuerewegen, Franc 11
Schulman, Peter 22
Scullion, Rosemarie 48
Segal, Naomi 23
Sherak, Constance 51
Sheringham, Michael 30
Sherzer, Dina 24
Smith, Leigh 56
Sobanet, Andrew 58
Solomon, Julie 23
Spear, Thomas C. 34
Spoiden, Stéphane 13
Stamelman, Richard 14
Starr, Peter 36
Stillman, Linda 12
Stivale, Charles J. 40, 50
Stoekl, Allan 58
Stout, John 28
Taraud, Estelle 19
Thibault, Bruno 2
Thomas, Jean-Jacques 42
Tlatli, Thoraya 57
Ueckmann, Natascha 17
Ungar, Steven 15
Vaget, Nicole 50
Vaugeois, Dominique 30
Verdaguer, Pierre 22
Verona, Roxana 42
Viart, Dominique 30
Voilley, Pascale 54
Walsh, Philip 55
Waters, Alyson 41
Watts, Philip 1
Walz, Robin 22
Weiner, Susan 25
Willis, Mary-Angela 33
Wilson, Emma 14
Wimmers, Inge Crosman 52
Winston, Jane 35
Yaari, Monique 4
Yervasi, Carina 58
Young, Patrick 6
Zachmann, Gayle 50
Zaïem, Farah 38
Zarifopol-Johnston, Ilinca 7
Zielonka, Anthony 55
Zongo, Opportune 31
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